How to Pan and Balance an Audio Track in Premiere Pro's Timeline
When you are first starting out with Adobe Premiere Pro, you may often find your recorded sound needs adjustments, editing and effects added. The Audio Mixer in Adobe Premiere Pro allow for controlling audio panning and balancing. “Panning” is the moving of audio from one channel to another, and “Balancing” is used to redistribute multi-channel audio tracks among the channels of another multi-channel track. The Audio Mixer is a handy tool, but simple adjustments are made easier directly in the Timeline. You can use the Timeline controls to correct pan and balance of your stereo audio tracks.
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Instructions
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Open the program and your project. Make the Timeline active by clicking on it.
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Expand your audio track’s view by clicking on the little triangle to the left of your audio track name.
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Click on the “Show Keyframes” button in your target audio track. It looks like a small yellow oval, and is usually located on the bottom, second from the left. Choose “Show Track Keyframes” from the pop-up menu.
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Select the “Track: Volume” option at the top left-hand corner of the track itself, and go to Panner, and then Balance or Panner, and then Pan from the pop-up menu.
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Move the current-time indicator to the point in your Timeline where you want to begin the process and click on the “Add Keyframe” icon.
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Choose either the Selection tool or the Pen tool from the Toolbox, and adjust the levels on the tracks.
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Tips & Warnings
Remember to save your work often when working with audio tracks. You can also change your auto save settings to auto-save more frequently by going to your Edit Menu, and then Preferences, and then Auto-Save. Go to "Automatically Save Projects" and enter in the number of minutes that you want the program to automatically save (5, 10, 15, etc.)
